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: :: DADDIO: Uh....dude, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you are NOT "ok". Your WRITING is at about a 5th grade level…..: Shaun: 5th grade READING level? Are you sure?
: DADDIO: I am now. Maybe 7th grade level for the READING. Just perfect for the daily newspaper.
Allrighty, my mistake. I'm sorry I wrote READING when you were talking about WRITING. Either way, it makes no difference. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
: Shaun: Oh, I'm sorry I don’t' use big, impressive words like "dude" like you do.
: DADDIO: Big impressive words? Was someone here using big impressive words? I was trying to keep my wording simple because, based on the writing and the thought process I was observing, I thought I was talking to a 10th grade highschool student, and, for all intents and purposes, I guess I am. My apologies if you couldn’t keep up.
In your last post you were stating your opinions on my english-speaking skills (that they were sub-par) and yet you kept using the word "dude" Every time you said "dude" I was picturing you as the stereo-typical california type airhead (the kind of people you see on shows like "Saved by the Bell") and all-around moron. I know it's not true, as you seem at least partially educated ;) but the thought made me chuckle. Anyway, when I was talking about you using big, impressing words like "dude" I was being a little sarcastic. I know sometimes it is hard to detect sarcasm in words, that is why I put dude in quotations. I was hoping you would get it.
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: DADDIO: Uh…ehhem…Shaun, that’s exactly my point. You’re a full grown adult licensed professional with great SAT scores but you’re writing at, what is considered in other industrialized cultures and was once considered here in the U.S., a middle school level at best. That’s MUCH more shameful than being a 10th grade highschool student in the same predicament, as I have speculated above. Consider what this says about the SAT exams.
I agree with you on the following point : That the SAT's are biased and unfair (I take it you were trying to express that in your last sentence)Actually, I don't even know why I brought up the SAT's. I believe that in no way do the SAT's accurately state a persons intelligence or education.
: How much French do you remember? "Hi, where’s the bathroom?"
"Bonjour,où est la salle de bains?"
And "I’d like to order the snails?"
"Je voudrais les escargots"
J'ai eu un bon éducation en français, mais il y a une petit problème. J'ai oublie beaucoup de français j'apprende à l'école. Mon français ne pas parfait, je pense,non, je sais cette paragraphe à beaucoup des erreurs. S'il y a quelqu'un ici qui parle cette langue, m'a dit s'il vous plait touts les erreurs.
The Sciences? Tell me what you know of the sciences. It must be an awful lot after 12 years of study. Tell me how an electric motor works. Don’t look it up, just explain it to me right where you’re sitting. With twelve years of "the Sciences" under your belt, certainly they must have discussed this ever present device in great detail, maybe even had you take one apart and put it back together. No?
I took 3 years of science. Biology, chemistry and earth science, none of which covered how an electric motor works. In fact, since I'm not interested in that subject, I probably would have forgotton it by now anyway. I can't possibly remember everything I learned in school and neither can you. I knew it back then, but since I have really no use for it now, and since, frankly, I'm not interested and couldn't care less, I have forgotten it. I have remembered many useless things taught that I am interested in. Otherwise, I'd rather forget it.
: U.S. History? How much gold was an Indian child expected to retrieve for early European explorers to prevent having his hands chopped off? Which tribes did our ancestors rape, kill, and pillage to gain control of what lands? Name a dozen of the thousands of treaties that have been broken with the natives of North America since then. Honors in U.S. history my ass.
Who ever said history was pretty? Surely not me. Are you trying to tell me that because of our country's violent history, I, or anyone else, could not possibly have been educated on the subject? That's what it seems like.
: Government? Explain communism to me. Democracy. Compare and contrast socialism and Marxism for me. Come on, now’s your big chance to show us what a primo education you got in public highschool.
: And then there’s the reading, writing, and comprehension. Did you get your 12 years and 200,000 dollars worth? Not. To be painfully honest, your writing sucks, you think I’m using big words when I’m not, and your first attempt to refute my accusations of poor literacy did nothing but reinforce the living daylights out of my main point, that being: you got shafted big time the public school system.
You're quick to critisize me on how poorly I read and write, but it's all really just talk. You haven't really proven yourself. Maybe I made a mistake or too, or even made a typo, like it's a big deal. It's too bad for you I really am literate. I think, that when compared to the majority of Americans, my language skills are pretty good.
: Dude (and do mean dude), it would take about 6 weeks tops to reinstruct you in everything you really "know" about your "honors" subjects, and, for all the time and money that was spent, you should be literary genius in each of these areas. You didn’t become well versed in these subjects. You sat and stared at a blackboard for 12 years like the rest of us. Face it. Your parents got ripped off. YOU got ripped off.
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: Shaun: …. received my R.E license and am now working on a career in law enforcement.
: DADDIO: No shit? A cop!? I love it!!! Oh man, you and me are gonna be good friends. Please, just hang in there with me for awhile longer. We might need to go to email.
Don't you mean "you and I"?
: DADDIO: Just for the record, if you HAD been "brainwashed like a zombie", would you know you had? I don’t think most brain washed zombies would know that they were brain washed zombies. Just a guess.
: DADDIO: Yawn. And just for future reference, don’t compare professional accomplishments with me. They can be extremely misleading and irrelevant, and, unless you really got that real estate thing crankin’, I probably make a lot more money than you do, so can it.
In a county where the cost of living is so high and the average house price is around 200k, you don't have to sell a heck of a lot of real estate to make a large amount of money,nevertheless, I don't think I want to sell real estate for a living. Like I said before- I want to be a cop, and even if that doesn't work out, I have a well paying career right now that I do like.
: Look, nobody likes being called stupid – I understand that. I’m not here just to bully people and make them feel bad about themselves. It just seems to me that everybody is kinda sleep walking (myself included), and I’m just trying everything I can to wake up and hopefully rouse a few people out of their own delirium in the process.
: Shaun, you’re probably a really nice guy to know in person. I don’t doubt it at all. I think you probably have big heart and your kids are probably as well adjusted as anybody’s. Underneath all your mental programming, you’re probably a damn Einstein, how could we ever know. I don’t dislike you. I dislike your mental/emotional baggage and the foggy glasses you’re staring through. I dislike it only a little less than my own. But I can’t hold back the message I need to give you, and I don’t know a nice way to say, "You’ve been totally fucked over by everything you’ve held dear." But you have.
Thanks for your kind words. I apologize for calling you a bum last time. The thing is, I don't see anything wrong with education in this country. Like I said in my first post, it not the schools or government causing the problem, but some parents. I'm sorry I don't see anything wrong with going to school for the first 17 or 18 years of your life, possibly college after that, getting a great job, raising a family and living a happy life. It's what we've been doing since the beginning.
